12 to 24 week pregnancy thread

2522laura

Poor you! Hope they listen to you next time. How far along are you now?

Wow!! Thats good. One of the perks of breast feeding :0)

Gillyx

29+2 :eek: and been told baby is measuring big today, so got a growth scan at 36, and if it's still the same they make take me in and induce me! Too soon!! Was saying to my partner today, it feels like no time at all I've been pregnant.

alizee

Well i had my 16 week appt with the midwife. she was absolutely baffled that after all my heart problems and a&e trip my consultant was not supposed to see me until march and has booked me an appointment for next wednesday, she said they need to see me more often, i told her about my consultant appt 3 weeks ago which was in and out in 5 mins and he was very blase about it all and she seemed quite annoyed really! said they should be monitoring me much more closely because i am high risk.
I might also need to be booked in for a c-section because of the strain labour would put on my heart. but again this is something i need to discuss with the consultant.. let's just hope he's nicer this time around!

We also listened to the baby's heartbeat which (she said) sounded perfect. it was so much better and louder than my home doppler lol!

I'm having some painful heartburn and i will be picking up the gaviscon tomorrow as i've been prescribed peptac and it's a bit like trying to drink treacle, it will just not go down my throat!

I also popped into work today as i was passing through town and i'm being transfered to a backstage role so i can try and manage the attacks better, which is great.
I couldn't help buying a pack of short sleeve bodysuits from primark (unisex colours) reduced from £7 down to £3 and a pack of the cutest baby girl stripy and spotty socks down to £1
(no, i don't know what i'm having yet but..they were just too cute!) :o:o

edited to add : i've also just had my flu jab and so far i'm feeling fine! arm isn't sore and i can't even feel where the jab was if i touch it!

looks like i've had quite a busy day today!

lisa26_2

2522laura wrote: »

Ooo I didnt see that Gillyx. I would only ever have one if it were necessary, I didnt cope well with getting my belly button pierced so would probably pass out with a c-section!

Just had my DP stuff delivered, all looks ok but the arms are quite long! I got the jumper and coat in a 6 thinking they would fit better but still looks like they drown me a bit! Oh well, with a bit of luck pregnancy will make my arms grow lol! Could do with a maternity petite range, I'm only 5ft 1 :0)

Laura you cut cut a bit off the bottom of all your stuff and send it to me to sew onto mine....I'm the exact opposite and could do with a tall maternity range!!!

Gopppers

2522laura wrote: »

Has anyone put much weight on yet? I just had my 18 week bump update from Huggies and it says I should have put on 10 - 12 pounds by now but I have only put on 5. Should I be worried? :0(

Hi Laura, I'm 20 weeks tomorrow and no weight gain here, still in my normal bottoms still as well. So don't worry to much. I've stopped worrying now, just going with the flow. Have my scan on Tuesday bit nervous about it but looking fwd to seeing baby. Hope everyone is well xx

Lola888

24 weeks today- V day never thought this day would come, not sure what you guys think, but 9 months is way too long. Dogs only take 16 weeks, but could be worse though elephants and whales take 18 months!!! :rotfl:

2522laura

Congratulations on you V-Day Lola :0) Did you find out which team you are?

Ladies, we need to set up our own chain of maternity wear stores with petite, standard and tall sizes!!!! We would rake it in!

Thanks for the reassurance Goppers. I am in my maternity stuff and feeling baby move so I am sure all is well, would help if they didn't say stuff like that in pregnancy guides though, its so easy to forget every pregnancy is differnt and panic.

Glad your midwife is sorting you out some proper care Alizee, its a good job you spoke to her about it

dizziblonde

...add in plus sizes to the maternity wear woes!

Not only do you get demonised by the medical profession - you get nothing to wear at all! Thankfully I've managed to squish into the next size down maternity trousers - but if I couldn't I'd be snookered... and a few of my tops are empire line so lots of tummy give anyway.

I guess fat pregnant women do not exist - or it's part of the global conspiracy to get us to just hang ourselves in shame and despair at having nothing to wear at all!

And now my rant of the day...

So I've got a history of depression and mental health issues run in my family - initial midwife booking-in this came up and she wanted to refer me to mental health services just in case as it's a number of risk factors for post-natal depression. I was fine enough for her to do this - I'd rather be IN the system if the worst happens than have to fight through a depressed haze to get help.

Went for the assessment appointment yesterday and boy oh boy did she twist and distort everything. Yeah I have a difficult relationship with my mother (both me and my brother admit she's a hard person to deal with - although we both understand why she's the way she is) and had what some might term a less than idyllic childhood (dad left when I was 10, I had to do a lot of caring for my ill younger brother because my mother just was struggling to cope) - but it was functional, it wasn't the level of those misery pron novels or anything like that - so this idiot nurse is writing down "oh yes, so there was quite a history of neglect in your childhood and you seem to harbour a lot of resentment and anger towards your mother" - I'm like "no! Yeah stuff went on when I was a kid that was less than ideal, but heck - neglect? Nope! And yeah my mother's a tricky one to deal with but we manage just fine and sometimes she's really lovely - other times she's a pain in the !!!! - but all mothers can be like that"... then we got onto the miscarriages... and she starts painting how I'm some kind of emotional inadequate because I'm not sat there floating along in a cloud of pre-maternal joy and ignorant bliss about the nasty things that can happen in pregnancy... because I'm only TOO painfully aware of the cruddy things that can go wrong. Oh and I'm also disfunctional because I prefer to be forewarned and KNOW about the things that can go wrong - so I can mentally tick them off my list of hurdles past - rather than just floating along till the medical profession hits me with something from the blindside that I don't know about at all!

So yeah, I challenged her, said she was judging a lot of what I was saying from the negative "ill" perspective rather than the normal perspective and, weren't there a number of psychological studies that had been showing the mental health profession was guilty of this going back as far as the 1960s? Think she'd have preferred it if I sat sobbing and wallowing and playing the victim over bad things that had happened - she didn't like me taking the line that "you get the hand of cards your dealt in life - you can either lie in bed sobbing about them, or get on and do what you can with what you've been given."

Oh, then we had the "do you have friends with babies" line... well no, I've been through about four years of fertility problems, a year of miscarriages back-to-back... for some very strange reason I've found it incredibly hard to be around people wiht babies at that point in time. So we had the judgemental sneer and assumption I'm an idiot with no clue that babies and kids are bloody hard work there - until I reminded her that, look, I work in early years teaching, I'm more clued up than you'd think... so she floundered there, then started backpedalling when I pointed out that I wasn't some ignorant idiot who thought it was all going to be Kodak moments and there weren't going to be nights when we were both functioning on about 1 hour's sleep for an entire week and me and hubby were really winding each other up through it all!

Don't think she liked me very much for that! Discharged me with a low readmittance threshold - so basically if I do have problems after the birth they'll take me back into the system straight away - which is all I wanted but I'm still annoyed at her manner now! Talk about judgmental and wanting to twist everything to the view she'd already decided to take. Thankfully I'm strong-willed enough to not allow stuff to be distorted like she wanted to (although no doubt it will be in her write up after I'd left) - but what on earth if she got her hands on a teenage mum with no friends with babies who wasn't strong enough to make sure what she was trying to say was coming across properly?

flutterby_lil

Morning ladies and bumps

Hugs dizzi, sounds like she didn't want to hear what you had to say and had already made her mind up about you. Glad you are not letting it get to you, I know I take everything to heart and would do.

Congrats on vday lola

re weight, I have put about 8 lbs on, am 22 weeks. I feel like I have put more on and the bottom of my belly is quite flabby but i lost 6 stones in 2003 and think this is excess skin/flab that I will always have. I eat fruit and veg everyday but also crisps and choc choc, so it balances out. I am enjoying it while I don't have to feel guilty

flutterby_lil

Does anybody know when you get your MATB1 form - I am 22 weeks, had midwife appt this week, thought I got it after 20 weeks last time but I didn't and forgot to ask. I am not seeing midwife now until January when I will be 28 weeks, when do you have to let work know by?